First up is several links involving the Feral lawman aka the NOPD and the developing story of the indictment and plea deal of Michael Lohman who was involved in the coverup of the shooting of unarmed civilians after Katrina. The Times Picayune in partnership with ProPublica has done an excellent series of articles on lawmen gone wild after Katrina in New Orleans, one of which we posted on late last year. We’re filling the print coverage void in Jefferson Parish and are content to let the Times Picayune’s excellent reporting on this stand on its own. Today I feature two Oped’s, the first from James Gill who takes disgraced former US Attorney turned former NOLA District Attorney Eddie Jordan to task for his actions in the city investigation. IMHO Eddie is most deserving of indictment and if there is not a law against being a feckless incomp maybe there ought to be one. The second column by Jarvis Deberry is a scathing indictment of soon to be former Police Chief Warren Riley who promised to find out what happened on the Danziger Bridge, then promptly did nothing even going so far as to recently admit he never bothered to read his own department’s report on the shootings. Maybe Jim Letten can spare an indictment of Mr Riley as he deserves to be sharing jail cells with these thugs called New Orleans police officers. Continue reading “Slabbed news miscellany: A few stories we are following plus Sunday Music”